Cayden Hendrix

History

5 December, 02:49

The crop-lien system:

a. became better as farm prices increased in the 1870s.

b. applied only to african-american farmers.

c. kept many sharecroppers in a state of constant debt and poverty.

d. annoyed bankers and merchants who resented how it made them dependent on farmers.

e. enabled yeoman farmers to continue to function under the same system as before the civil war.